John,
I first thought this read 'Orthocop' and then realised o that was
the other thread. Enough of the ortho-policing (ampersand); isn't this a
stock exchange though? In this country it was a stick to beat the likes
of Alan Loney with in the 1970s, the punishment he had to take for
reading the better American poetry. Some people are so afraid of
fashion they only shop in second hand stores.
It's not the ampersand alone though, its all these cd and wds,
these projective versisms riles some of the folks up. The best place to
enjoy them I think is in the Olson-Creeley letters where they represent
a quite particular kind of intensity/compression. There's no doubt why
they're there.
Wystan
> Octothorp
>
> "Otherwise known as the numeral sign. It has also been used as a symbol for
> pound avoirdupois [that is, a pound weight, not the pound note in British
> currency -JT] but this usage is now archaic. In cartography, it is also a
> symbol for village: eight fields around a central square, and this is the
> source of its name. Octothorp means eight fields."
>
> Robert Bringhurst, "The Elements of Typographic Style" (second edition,
> 1997), Hartley & Marks, Vancouver, ISBN 0-88179-132-6.
>
>
> from John Tranter
> Editor, Jacket magazine: http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/welcome.html
> Ancient history - the late sixties - at
> http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/tranter/index.html
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